Second Easter + Bonus

This is the second and final post about Easter-type-things. Don't get me wrong, Easter is great. More for the religious/spiritual reasons than for the commercial reasons or the outdoorsy allergy-infested reasons. Still... it was a fun year and I'm going to write a bit more about family Easter celebrations.

I'll lead off with the bonus.

Football Fun

Gave Em some pointers on throwing a football recently. She's a natural!

Played catch with the rest of the kids too and ended up in an epic game of 500. The kids have some rules for it that I'd never heard of and it ended up being very silly and really fun. Hopefully we do this again soon.

The Hunt For The Eggcellent Eggs

We spent some time with a couple of Chris's aunts and uncles and more of their extended family recently. They put on an epic Easter egg hunt each year and we were happy to be invited and take part this year.

As an aside, notice anything about the heights of the people below? Some of them seem to be growing. How curious.

The smaller kids started out in the front yard and worked their way to the back.

The back yard was where the older kids started. There were great hiding spots out there (or at least that's what the Easter Bunny told me during our chat).

Hording ill-gotten candy and the swingset... YOUTHS.

That's all for now. We shall return with future shenanigans. Hopefully.

First Easter

I thought I'd give all ya'll (in the Texas parlance) a few days break from reading my nonsensical drivel. Now I'm back with more content than ever. Poor you.

Eggs, Roll Out!

Easter is a pretty fun time for us. We have a few traditions, some inherited and some new. This year we went out to a hill south of Manti, UT with the Crane family to roll eggs. 

I remember the first time we joined them for this somewhere outside New Harmony, UT about 92,000 years ago. My conversation with Meri went something like this:

Meri - "We're going to go roll eggs with Mammy and Papa and all the kids." 

Me - "We're going to what?!"

Hamburger Hill (for eggs)

It turns out, the kids really get a kick out of seeing who can get a hard-boiled egg to roll the farthest down a hill.

It turns out, the adults really get a kick out of seeing who can get a hard-boiled egg to roll the farthest down a hill.

It turns out, I like repeating this.

There was a SLIGHT breeze.

Who Says Bunnies Don't Have A Sense Of Humor?

The Easter Bunny continued the tradition of leaving candy all over our house and hiding Easter baskets. When he came to the Axis & Allies game the boys and I are still working on, he decided to even the odds...

I'll be back...

Second Easter is already in the pipe so I'll probably finish it sometime this week. Rest assured that there will not be a 3rd or 4th... that would be silly.